Cigarette-box.



A. MENDELSON &: S. I. GOLDBERG.

CIGARETTE BOX.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 4, 1913.

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CIGARETTE BOX. APPLICATION PILED OG'I 4, 1913.

ATTORNEYS COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH cm. WASHINGTON, D. C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AARON MENDELSON AND SHEPARD J. GOLDBERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGARETTE-B OX.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, AARON MENDELSON and SHEPARD J. GOLDBERG, citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York,-

have invented a new and Improved Oigarette-Box, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has special reference to im provements in cigarette boxes and comprehends an improved box structure designed more especially for use in connection with boxes having a bottom and a cover hinged thereto with means within one or both portions of the box to cause a plurality of cigarettes pivotally mounted therein to be arranged in inclined positions spaced apart or in staggered relation in a various number of arrangements so as to be readily removed from their holders separately by a person desiring a cigarette.

Another specific object of the invention resides in the provision of a cigarette box having hinged sections mounted therein to support holders for'the cigarettes, While a supporting member is also pivoted in one or both sections and by means of a connection with the opposed section of the box is caused to move out of the area of the respective body or cover section in such a manner as to elevate the cigarettes by contact with the supporting sections carrying the same, the operation being wholly automatic upon the opening of the box.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention resides more particularly in the peculiar combination and arrangement of parts which will be illustrated as a preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawings and described in the specification.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cigarette box comprising hinged body and cover sections with supports arranged in each and connected to the op osed sections, while the cigarettes are held in spaced relation due to Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 4, 1913.

Patented June 23, 1914.

Serial No. 793,415.

a special configuration of the supports; Fig. 2 1s a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the device shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional vie taken through the cover section and looking toward the c garettes therein; Fig. 1 is a perspective vlew of a box in which all of the cigarettes are pivoted in one section, namely, the bottom or body section, while a single support is arranged therein to move the cigarettes in crossed relation spaced apart to be withdrawn; and Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view of the structure shown in Fig. 4t.

In the embodiment illustrated in Figs. 1,- 2 and 3 of the drawings, the box is shown as comprising a bottom section 10 preferably having a rear and side extension 11 over which a cover section 12 which is hinged to the bottom section as shown at 13 is designed to engage when the box is closed. Pivoted in each of the sections 10 and 12 near the pivotally connected edges thereof are a series of cigarette supporting strips 14 which are formed by severing a common strip with the unsevered portion of the strip bent at an angle thereto and secured to the edge portion of each of the bottom and cover sections, as shown at 15, and by reason of the fact that the supporting sections are disposed in spaced relation they may freely move beyond each other. Fixed to each supporting strip is a tubular or other form of cigarette receiving pocket 16 which terminates short of the upper ends of the supporting sections, whereby when the cigarettes 17 are disposed therein they will project beyond the ends of the supporting sections and will also be protected from breakage by said supporting sections which serve as stiffening members.

will be moved to substantially upright positions but their hinged connections are designed to cause them to move toward the respective sections in which they are carried in the direction of their free edges.

By allowing the cigarettes in the holders carried by the strips to fall toward the supporting strips or plates 18 in contra-distinction to their limited movement inwardly toward the inner edges of the bottom and cover sections, the cigarettes are caused to be held in inclined positions but were the upper edges of the supporting strips or plates on a continuous line the cigarettes would be held in adjacent position and could not be readily removed. To accomplish this latter purpose the supporting strips or plates 18 are notched to provide alternate recesses and projections, one plate as shown having a central recess 21 and outer recesses 22 which are less deep than the recess 21 so that the cigarettes supporting upon the upper edge walls of the recesses 22 will be sup ported'at a higher elevation than the ciga-' rette mounted in the upper edge wall of the recess 21 and the cigarettes supported upon the intermediate projections 28 will be supported upon a higher plane, thus disposing the cigarettes in staggered and spaced relation. The arrangement of the cigarettes, as long as they are in spaced or staggered relation, may be varied by varying the arrangement of the recesses and projections, so that by providing the other plate with intermediate and end projections 2 1 and notches or recesses 25 between the same, a reverse arrangement from that shown in the other plate is provided for. V V

In Figs. 4 and 5 the-bottom section is indicated by the numeral 26 and the cover section hinged thereto is indicated by the numeral 27 while a plurality of tubular holders 28 are pivoted as shown at 29 at their closed lower ends to the bottom of the bottom section 26 near the front and rear edge walls of the latter. A supporting strip or plate 30 in this instance is hinged as shown at 31 in said bottom section in spaced relation to the point of pivotal connection of the holders 28 near the rear edge of the bottom section or point of pivotal connection of the cover section therewith. By means of flexible connections 32 leading from the opposite edges of the supporting strip or plate 30 to the sides of the cover section, said supporting strip or plate is caused to move in an inclined position when the cover is open. By this means the cigarettes 33 mounted in the holders 28 are 1. In a cigarette box, the combination with a bottom section and a cover section connected thereto for opening and closing,

movement; of a rigid supporting plate p1voted in one of said sections ad acent the point of connection of the sections and connected to the other section, and a plurality of cigarette holders independently pivoted in the section in which the plate is pivoted, in spaced relation to the plate whereby when the'plate is elevated by the opening of the box the cigarettes will be similarly positioned intheir holders spaced apart one with respect to the other.

2. In a cigarette box, the combination with a plurality of sections and pivoted rigid supporting plates carried thereby; of a plurality of independent holders also pivoted in the box at spaced distances from the plates and adapted to lie on the plates when the box is closed, and connections between the plates and box sections, to cause the latter to be elevated and simultaneously elevate the holders when the box is open, said supports being notched to dispose the cigarettes in staggered relation.

3. The combination with a box embodying hinged sections and a plate pivoted in certain of the sect-ions near their point of pivotal connection, a plurality of cigarette holders in certain of the sections and mov ably engaging and supported on the respective supporting plate in the same section, and flexible connections between each supporting plate and the opposed sections, whereby when the sections are moved into spaced relation said plate and holders will be elevated at predetermined inclinations.

4. The combination with a box embodying hinged sections and a plate pivoted in cer tain of the sections nearer their point of pivotal connection than their free edges, a plurality of cigarette holders pivoted in certain of the sections for movement independent thereof and movably engaging the re spective supporting platein the same section, and flexible connections between each supporting plate and the opposed sections, whereby when the sections are moved into spaced relation said plate and holders will be moved to inclined positions at acute an r gles relative to the respective sections, said holders having reinforcing member's.

5. The combination with a box embodying hinged sections and a-plate pivoted in cer tain of the sections nearer their point of pivotal connection than their free edges, a lurality of cigarette holders in certain .01

the sections and movably engaging the respective supporting plate in the same section, and flexible connections between each supporting plate and the opposed sections, said supporting plates having alternate notches and projections to cause the cigarettes to move into spaced and staggered relation for removal from their holders.

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